1.8 %
Potassium is below the 15 % “source of” level in barbecue sauce, so no function line applies.
How many calories are in barbecue sauce?
21kcal
in a 15 g tablespoon
140 kcal per 100 g.
Source: UK CoFID 2021, record 17-705. Checked 5 October 2026.
0.02 gFat
0.15 gProtein
0.18 gFibre
1.8 %Daily potassium
What’s in a 15 g tablespoon
More than half of a tablespoon is water. The rest is 5.4 g carbohydrate and 0.18 g fibre.
- 0.02 gFat
- 0.15 gProtein
- 5.4 gCarbohydrate
- 0.18 gFibre
- 9.2 gWater
About average for sauces, soups and condiments
Barbecue sauce is 140 kcal per 100 g. The 92 sauces, soups and condiments in this database average 154.
Barbecue sauce140
Sauces, soups and condiments average154
High in sugar
29.9 g of sugars per 100 g, which is red on a UK traffic-light label (the line is 22.5 g).
Sugars, per tablespoon4.5 g
Salt, per tablespoon0.24 g
Vitamins and minerals in barbecue sauce
One of the 22 recorded reach the “high in” level. Potassium leads.
Only a trace
- Selenium
None recorded
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin B12
Show all 22 with amounts
Chloride146 mg, 18 %
Potassium36 mg, 1.8 %
Copper0.02 mg, 1.7 %
Vitamin A0.0126 mg, 1.6 %
Vitamin E0.14 mg, 1.1 %
Magnesium3.5 mg, 0.9 %
Manganese0.02 mg, 0.8 %
Iron0.09 mg, 0.6 %
Phosphorus4.1 mg, 0.6 %
Vitamin C0.45 mg, 0.6 %
Niacin (vitamin B3)0.08 mg, <1 %
Vitamin B60.01 mg, <1 %
Thiamin (vitamin B1)0 mg, <1 %
Folate0.00075 mg, <1 %
Calcium2.6 mg, <1 %
Biotin0.00015 mg, <1 %
Zinc0.03 mg, <1 %
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.02 mg, <1 %
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0 mg, <1 %
Iodine0.00015 mg, <1 %
Vitamin Dnone recorded
Vitamin B12none recorded
Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”. A trace is shown as “trace” and never counts.
What barbecue sauce doesn’t give you. And where to find it.
No recorded vitamin D or selenium, and only 2 % of the zinc reference intake per 100 g.
Vitamin D
0mgin barbecue sauce
Find it inBloater, grilled500 % per 100 g
Selenium
Tracein barbecue sauce
Find it inKidney, pig, fried491 % per 100 g
Zinc
2%in barbecue sauce, per 100 g
Find it inOysters, raw592 % per 100 g
100 mgVitamin C, 125 %
0.075 mgSelenium, 136 %
0.00125 mgVitamin D, 25 %
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Barbecue sauce against other sauces, soups and condiments
Per 100 g, barbecue sauce has the most potassium of the 6 here, ahead of pesto (green).
240mg
180mg
163mg
124mg
66mg
4mg
Barbecue saucethis page
Pesto, green−60 mg
Cheese sauce−77 mg
Hollandaise sauce−174 mg
Mayonnaise, standard, retail−236 mg
All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against barbecue sauce.
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Questions about barbecue sauce
Four questions chosen by the facts above, so every food answers differently.
How many calories are in a portion of barbecue sauce?
A typical portion (15 g, one tablespoon) gives 21 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 140 kcal.
Is barbecue sauce high in chloride?
Yes. Barbecue sauce has 970 mg chloride per 100 g, 121 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.
Which vitamins and minerals does barbecue sauce have most of?
By share of the daily reference intake: chloride (970 mg, 121 %), potassium (240 mg, 12 %) and copper (0.11 mg, 11 %) per 100 g.
Is barbecue sauce high in salt?
Yes by UK label standards: 1.6 g per 100 g is above the 1.5 g that counts as high.
How these numbers were made
Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 17-705, Barbecue sauce, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: Miscellaneous Foods Supplement, 1994; and industry data, 2013. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a tablespoon is 15 g, one tablespoon, the usual UK portion for sauces, soups and condiments. Reference intakes follow Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 Annex XIII as retained in GB law; “source of”, “high in” and “low” follow Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, assessed per 100 g. Function lines are the authorised wording from the GB register of nutrition and health claims, credited to the nutrient. Energy is rounded to the whole kcal and kJ; other amounts to one decimal, or two below 1. A trace is shown as “trace” and never gets a figure or a badge; a nutrient never analysed is left off the page. We start from the dataset’s 2,887 records and keep 2,322: records weighed with bone, shell or skin, alcoholic drinks, infant foods, brand-named products, records with fewer than eight measured vitamins and minerals and near-identical variants are left out. Group context uses the 92 sauces, soups and condiments kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Food images are illustrations from Ingredient Atlas, released under CC0; they show the food, not the measured sample. Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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